Patch 15b Changelog

Alternate Shotgun:

• Increased Alternate Shotgun cooldown on red hit from 5 seconds to 7 seconds
• Decreased Alternate Shotgun red hit damage from 12 to 10
• Added unique style bonuses for Alternate Shotgun
• Fixed the Alternate Shotgun not losing freshness when used on core ejects or rockets
• Alternate Shotgun no longer activates red hit cooldown when hitting a dead enemy
• Alternate Shotgun now applies environmental hit pushback when hitting a dead enemy
• Alternate Shotgun core eject vertical momentum is now no longer relative to the camera when looking downwards
• Alternate Shotgun core eject cooldown now no longer resets on weapon change
• Fixed an offset bug caused by picking up a dual wield while charging the primary fire of the alternate shotgun
• Added short descriptions of each Alternate weapon when they get picked up

Sawed-On Shotgun:

• Chainsaws no longer get stuck inside the player when punched with the Feedbacker before immediately swapping arms
• Fixed the Sawed-On chainsaw sometimes continuing to damage enemies that are no longer in range
• Fixed the Sawed-On chainsaw sometimes removing limbs off the wrong enemies
• Chainsaw can now properly hit the same enemy again after being punched
• V2 can longer be damaged with the chainsaw during its intro animation
• Alternate Sawed-On Shotgun no longer instantly launches chainsaw if the player swaps back after swapping to another weapon while charging it
• Made launched chainsaws a bit quieter
• Added sparks when launched chainsaws hit enemies
• A launched chainsaw's sprite becomes smaller while touching the player so it doesn't block their vision

JumpStart Nailgun:

• Conduction now damages the magnets it conducts through to stop infinite conduction chains
• Fixed the JumpStart nailgun not losing its higher firerate after a zapper is destroyed if the player continues to fire without pause

Firestarter Rocket Launcher:

• Spraying gasoline on moving objects such as doors no longer causes physics anomalies
• Fixed gasoline fire sustaining forever after a checkpoint restart
• Firestarter gasoline now explodes instead of burning when underwater
• Fixed gasoline stains under gasolined burning enemies lasting much longer than intended
• Fixed gasoline stains not being easily visible on glass
• Burning objects now also set gasoline stains on fire on contact
• Fixed gasoline fill visuals not working properly on some enemies
• Increased damage of fire on gasolined enemies from 0.2 to 0.5 per tick
• Napalm firerate is no longer framerate dependant

7-S:

• Added "Hard Mode" in the Advanced Options
• Added 7-S music to the Cyber Grind jukebox
• 7-S no longer resets objective progress on checkpoint restart
• Fixed a bug where the whiplash could grab skulls through blocking doors if really far away
• Respawning at the 7-S courtyard checkpoint will now reset the red skull if the player is holding it to avoid softlocks
• Added unique cubemaps to every 7-S room's completion reflection
• Improved accuracy of 7-S bloodstains
• Fixed the alternate skybox sometimes appearing black
• Fixed inconsistencies with gib amount in 7-S based on gore settings
• Ghost Drones now have an animation when being pulled
• Increased range of Ghost Drone chirps to make them easier to find
• Removed unintended colliders from 7-S clock
• Blue skull case in 7-S now opens if Disable Enemy Spawns cheat is on

Brutal:

• Hideous Mass harpoon health reduced to 3 on Brutal and 2 on other difficulties
• Slightly reduced attack frequency of Virtues on Brutal difficulty
• Added Brutal difficulty to the Boss Difficulty Override Major Assist
• Fixed Gabriel's Brutal difficulty spiral swords attack staying after checkpoint reset
• Ferrymen now have a global cooldown on lightning bolt summons to avoid them being stacked
• Brutal Ferryman close range lightning bolt windup increased from 2 seconds to 5 seconds
• Ferryman oars now start glowing blue when they're charging a lightning bolt
• Ferryman lightning bolts can now be cancelled by attaching a JumpStart zapper to or parrying the Ferryman
• Added a short delay and a blue flash before a Cerberus performs a second tackle

General:

• Fixed player not being able to heal while dashing
• Fixed bloodsplatter healing range being too small
• Improved performance of bloodsplatters and bloodstains
• Fixed performance drops caused by bloodsplatters not getting properly deleted if Blood and Gore is disabled
• Fixed HurtZones such as acid continuing to hurt dead enemies when not intended
• Level Stats overlay is now rebindable
• Player can no longer be damaged or killed while exiting a level
• Weapon wheel and leaderboards change are now also on the Previous Variation bind (more specific options to come later)
• Audio no longer stays muffled when restarting or quitting mission while underwater
• Fixed audio pops caused by pausing and unpausing
• Fixed auto-aim not working with some of the new weapons
• Checkpoints now display their text correctly from both sides
• Delayed the health and weapon charge reset from clearing a wave in the Cyber Grind slightly to avoid overlap with killing the last enemy
• Fixed Cyber Grind end screen text blurriness and Brutal difficulty title
• Fixed Enemy Silhouettes option not saving
• Fixed Enemy Silhouettes Activation Distance option not displaying in the main menu
• Fixed Swordsmachine's shotgun pickup sometimes getting blasted out of bounds by explosions
• Fixed magnets getting destroyed after 30 seconds even if No Weapon Cooldowns cheat is enabled
• Altered Cerberus hitboxes for less janky collision on the chest
• Fixed the Alter Arm menu still staying on when a Cerberus or Malicious Face dies from being both Puppeted and Sandified
• Fixed the insurrectionist not freezing properly with the Alter Arm
• Fixed jump pad physics status not saving in Sandbox saves
• Added Alter Arm option for enraging Guttermen
• Fixed the enrage texture for the casketless Gutterman in 7-2
• Fixed Filth getting stuck in midair after performing a jump attack while dropping down a ledge
• M̶i̶n̶o̶t̶a̶u̶r̶ no longer stays stuck in its back swipe animation when dying during it
• M̶i̶n̶o̶t̶a̶u̶r̶ chase now has an additional collider on its arm to push off players on its back
• Swordsmachines Agony and Tundra are no longer missing their right arms
• Player can no longer get Cannonball related style bonuses from dead enemies
• Fixed P-2 Cerberi not dying when touching the red tunnel vortex
• Shockwaves no longer break breakables that are only supposed to break with the Revolver
• Fixed forcebossbars carrying over on level change even if cheats are no longer enabled and being undisableable
• Fixed some enemies having the wrong names in their health bars
• Fixed controller look being framerate dependant
• Fixed an act appearing gold even when not actually gold on that difficulty after first going to chapter select on a difficulty that does have it gold
• Fixed an untagged wall in 1-4 first room
• Fixed a hole in 6-2 geometry
• Restored FUPs (if you don't know what this means don't worry about it)
• Fixed a bug that caused Size 2 fish to be uncatchable